I want to like Woodrow Wilson, I really really do ...

In our discussion of the Declaration of Independence, Gettysburg Address and the I Have a Dream speech, President Wilson is a bridge of sorts to get us to the modern civil rights era. He was a progressive and an academic and has a view of the what a president should be that will be personified in FDR. But ... Wilson is pure academics. He is brilliant and controversial and one of the important voices of the Progressive movement. Dr. Burkett, the guest lecturer this week, is passionate about Wilson and I want to be won over. I'll keep working ... I may need to put him in the column with Andrew Jackson. I see their importance but I'm still wrestling with how I feel about them.